Editorial

If you are just an average consumer of Internet, you might not be aware about CDN (Content Delivery Network). They are special services which loads your Facebook profile blazing fast, lets you watch the trending videos on YouTube in 1080 HD resolution without any buffer and let you play Battlefield and other Multiplayer games online with very low latency and ping. Yes that amazing feature that almost all the popular websites deploy is CDN ! Read the full post

Tiny Tip

Skype is undoubtedly the most popular application on all Operating System platforms for video calling. Skype enables you to chat and have video call with your friends and family via VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Skype has recently been acquired by Microsoft and still continues to be the most popular application for video calling since it provides video calling in high-resolution with excellent voice and video quality. And to top of it all, it is a free application for Windows, Mac OS, Linux as well as for Android and iOS. Read the full post

Editorial

Christmas and Black Friday season is just around and we thought it’s been a while since we did another jaw dropping giveaway for our readers. Well ! You will be totally excited with this giveaway since we are offering you 2 essential desktop applications for 100% free (courtesy of our friends at InvestInTech). Read below on how you can get a PDF creator and a Word-to-PDF converter for free instantly ! Read the full post

Tiny Tip

I upgraded the primary OS on my laptop to Windows 8 a few months back. But just last week I found out that my Windows 8 laptop is not showing up the DVD Drive in “My Computer” anymore. Usage of optical drives have reduced a lot since flash drives and high speed Internet have gained popularity. Nonetheless, I was suspecting that there’s a hardware failure or some other issue with my DVD Drive and wanted to fix it soon. Read the full post

Tiny Tip

Google has many country-specific local domain search pages for users around the world. These local domain search pages can be identified by the TLDs (Top Level Domains) like www.google.co.in (India), www.google.co.uk (United Kingdom) and so on. These local domain search pages provide results which are more relevant to your current location.

If you observer carefully while Googling, when you type www.google.com in your browser address bar , you are automatically redirected to the Google domain for your country. This can get annoying sometimes when you actually want to perform a broad search and the search from these local domains can restrict your search results. Here is how you can prevent Google from redirecting you to the local domain for your searches : Read the full post